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No one troubles Rabonius, neither on the first of December, nor on the fifth, nor
on the thirteenth. At last Verres himself goes away to his province some time before
the work is completed. After he was prosecuted, at first he said that he could not
enter the work in his accounts; when Rabonius pressed it, he attributed the cause of
it to me, because I had sealed up his books. Rabonius applies to me, and sends his
friends to apply to me; he easily gets what he wishes for; Verres did not know what
he was to do. By not having entered it in his accounts, he thought he should be able
to make some defence; but he felt sure that Rabonius would reveal the whole of the
transaction. Although, what could be more plain than it now is, even without the
evidence of any witness whatever. At last he enters the work in Rabonius's name as
undertaken by him, four years after the day which he had fixed for its completion.
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